Having fallen out with Yanukovych and Pshonka, the ex-minister is cleaning up his image and giving up his accomplices.
While Bankova is still burdened by the obvious fact of war with the Russian Federation, the sponsors of the bloody massacre in the south and east of Ukraine are actively preparing the ground for their return to Kyiv.
Andriy Kravets, the Yanukovych family's "superintendent," has already returned to the capital. He clearly still has plenty to do: after all, the "family" of scoundrels who unleashed the bloody terror in Ukraine continues to profit from their businesses in Ukraine, despite international sanctions. The latest egregious example: the Yanukovych "family" continues to steal from Kyiv residents, now with the help of Vitali Klitschko. It's a known fact that the Yanukovych family has seized 7000 companies. But for some reason, no one is touching their assets. Why? This question is not only for the Prosecutor General's Office and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), but also for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
The notorious representatives of Russia's "fifth column" are also doing well in Ukraine—from the top of the Donetsk criminal intelligence group "Lux" (Rinat Akhmetov and Co.) to obvious representatives of the Russian secret services (David Zhvania, Nikolai Rudkovsky, Nestor Shufrich, and others). And Medvedchuk is no longer an issue.
It's no surprise that, against the backdrop of this prosperity and forgiveness, smaller-scale criminal figures have flocked to Ukraine.
For example, Oleksandr Klymenko, the former Minister of Revenue and Duties. A protégé of the Yanukovych family, he proposed and implemented a nationwide mechanism for the total centralized collection of funds for the benefit of the criminal "family" from virtually any illegal financial transaction—whether it be fictitious VAT refunds, cashing out, "envelopes," shady currency transactions, non-payment of excise taxes, etc. This involves controlling the shadow turnover of tens of billions of hryvnias and billions of dollars annually, with a fixed profit derived from literally every illegal transaction.
Moreover, A. Klimenko, using his official position, facilitated the seizure of businesses from their owners in favor of the Yanukovych family, paralyzing the activities of commercial enterprises up to their complete shutdown and the seizure of the owners' assets until they surrendered "to the mercy of the victors."
Experts noted that the violent financial and property redistribution between 2010 and 2014 affected at least 7000 enterprises—from bazaars, large wholesale markets, and supermarket chains to large industrial and agricultural enterprises.
A typical example is the Nibulon company, where Vadatursky's father, the owner, was forced to hand over 51% of his ownership to the "family" in exchange for his son's release from prison—the heir was simply made a hostage to break the father's will to resist. But before his son's arrest, which proved the final straw in this standoff, Nibulon was mercilessly attacked by Oleksandr Klymenko's subordinates. And so it was with every enterprise that caught the eye of the Yanukovych family, represented by its "overseers."
It has reached the point where Ukrainian representative offices of world-famous companies are being levied with taxes—after all, there is complete impunity!
Extortion from Peugeot Citroen
Below is a letter from the Frenchman Serge Banzet, CEO of Peugeot Citroen in Ukraine, which in 2013 became the prologue to an international scandal.
In internal correspondence with his Ukrainian counterpart, a French top manager reveals corruption schemes in government procurement of ambulances. He also reveals methods used by senior officials at the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to coerce the French automotive giant into cooperating.
A brief summary of the letter, a photocopy of which we provide below:
1. To make Peugeot Citroen management more compliant, the Ministry of Customs, led by Alexander Klimenko, blocked customs clearance of all Peugeot and Citroen vehicles in Ukraine.
2. To further compel the French from Peugeot Citroen to comply, the Ministry of Economy blocked VAT refunds for Peugeot and Citroen dealers in Ukraine.
3. After which, representatives of Peugeot Citroen were called in for a “conversation” with the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health with the aim of “knocking out” a better price for the NPO “Praktika” (a company of the Yanukovych “family”).
4. The Peugeot Boxer, which the French sold at a loss to themselves for 205,000 hryvnias to NPO Praktika, was later sold to the Ministry of Health for 650,000–850,000 hryvnias after a mere “re-equipment.”
5. After forcing Peugeot management to cooperate and signing an agreement on the cost of the car for NPO Praktika, the French customs problems "resolved" themselves.
photocopy
It is clear that without direct orders from Alexander Klimenko, it would have been impossible to organize such a “pressure” on Peugeot Citroen Ukraine.
All of the above allows us to conclude that this is a case of Oleksandr Klymenko's systematic and active involvement in the criminal cases against the Yanukovych family and its satellites. The number of victims of Oleksandr Klymenko's activities leaves no chance for him to escape retribution—if the criminal case is properly investigated.
But here some nuances are possible.
(To be continued: what Klimenko and Yanukovych disagreed about; reputation “cleaning” – prices and “cleaners”; payment and retribution for terrorism).
Konstantin Ivanchenko, "Argument"
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